2003. January 10.
Museum delivery of my 50th Anniversary Corvette

A playful and somewhat cartoonish video of the museum delivery. Size: 15.5 MB Stitched together from webcam images. (Requires Windows Media Player 9)

Diary of a Museum Delivery From the moment I decided to buy a Vette to my first short cruise in my new car.

We have arrived to Bowling Green, KY - the still empty trailer and the Chevy Silverado pulling it in front of the National Corvette Museum.	The "Corvettes only" parking lot in front of the museum. (But note that Mazda Miata!)	The sign of the NCM.	More of the outside of the NCM.	Happy owners tested their brand spanking new Vettes!?	Bob watching TV in the hotel's lobby.
Welcoming sign at the main entrance of the NCM.	Welcome to our new owners...	...ME! (At the entrance of the Corvette assembly plant.)	A random C5 in front of the assembly plant's entrance.	The one of a kind 50th anniversary golden Vette.	Bowling Green Assembly Plant, main entrance.
The bricks in front of the NCM.	From the left: Bob (my friend and our driver), Robi (my brother) and Brad (Robi's friend).	My C5 stripped: the back...	...and the front. To the left our delivery guide, Thomas McFall.	Robi and Brad finally getting a rest.	This is a 1953 C1.
This is a very nice C2.	This is a C3.	The very first C5.	The "nursery" - cars in the NCM waiting for deliveries. (Note that most of them are Annie's, that yellow one is a Z06.)	Double headlamps!	A memorial for Zora.
Zora's Vette.	Coming at you!	This is NOT the 2002 pace car, it's a regular Annie with decals. (We are behind the scenes now.)	A mock-up of a C6 prototype.	Below: more cars waiting for deliveries. Above: cars locked out of the museum due to lack of space. In the distance: the rest of the gang listening to Thomas.	This is how cars were built in the old St. Louis plant.
A Corvette dealership, ca. 1960's.	A raced C4.	Another racer.	The 1989 ZR-1 Vette that broke the 24-hour speed record with 175.885 mph - with a stock 1990 engine!	After a 35 mph impact.	A 1990 ZR-1 stripped.
Headrest of the 1 millionth Corvette.	A one-off Vette spyder.	Hey, my first start!	Somebody is having fun with his new car!	Thomas introducing me the car.	This is the nursery again.
The mirror images.	Looks like a Porsche, but it's a Vette.	A C4 with open hood.	Posing with my new toy at the delivery bay.	Now with the door open.	And now with the lights on!
The car is loaded, we are ready to go!	At the Ramada Inn in Lebanon, just North of Indianapolis.	More of the Ramada Inn.	We are home!	Marci and I are unwrapping the car inside.	Getting ready to roll out.
Rolling out.	Rolling down.	Touchdown!	All four tires are on the ground.	Turning left into the driveway.	In the driveway!